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The View From Fogo Island

Published on November 24, 2010; Published on November 24, 2010
Benson Hewitt

Bishop Michael Fleming Visits Fogo Island, 1834

Topics :: Church of England , Established Church , Fogo Island , Tilton , Newfoundland

There is a beautiful story in Genesis of Jacob fleeing from his brother Esau, and sleeping at a place to be called Bethel and how he used a rock for a pillow. The location of the spot, although never definitively identified, became a hallowed one, and legend even has it that the pillow is now the Stone of Scone and used in the coronation ceremonies of British monarchs.

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